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Fjord/firth/Förde as well as ford/Furt/Vörde/voorde refer to a Germanic noun for a travel: North Germanic ferd or färd and of the verb to travel, Dutch varen, German fahren; English to fare. [30] As a loanword from Norwegian, [26] it is one of the few words in the English language to start with the sequence fj. [31]
The Hudson River fjord in New York is recognized as the only true Fjord in the eastern coast of the United States [1] [2] Somes Sound, a fjard located within Acadia National Park, is often mistaken for being another fjord located along the eastern coast of the United States. [3] [4]
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... List of fjords in Canada; Fjords and channels of Chile; List of fjords ...
This list of Norwegian fjords shows many of the fjords in Norway. In total, there are about 1,190 fjords in Norway and the Svalbard islands. The sortable list includes the lengths and locations of those fjords.
Hvalfjörður (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈkʰvalˌfjœrðʏr̥] ⓘ, "whale fjord") is situated in the west of Iceland between Mosfellsbær and Akranes. The fjord is approximately 30 kilometres (19 miles) long and 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) wide. A portrait of the legend of the valley of Glymur with the "Rauðhöfði"
English borrowed the word separately from a number of loughs in the previous Cumbric language areas of Northumbria and Cumbria. Earlier forms of English included the sound /x/ as gh (compare Scots bricht with English bright). However, by the time Scotland and England joined under a single parliament, English had lost the /x/ sound.
The name Sogn og Fjordane was created in 1919; a literal translation is: Sogn and the fjords. The first element is the name of the region of Sogn , located in the southern part of the county. The last element is the plural definite form of fjord , which refers to the two regions in the county called Nordfjord and Sunnfjord in the northern and ...
The Oslofjord (Norwegian: Oslofjorden, Urban East Norwegian: [ˈʊ̂ʂlʊˌfjuːɳ]; English: Oslo Fjord [1] [2] [3]) is an inlet in southeastern Norway.The 120-kilometre (75 mi) fjord begins at the small village of Bonn in Frogn Municipality and stretching northwards to the city of Oslo, and then curving to the east and then south again.